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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared
mind. ~ Louis
Pasteur

selected by Kalki

2005

Things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I
believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide
open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the
betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the
imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to
foster civilization. ~ L. Frank Baum (born 15 May 1856)

selected by Kalki

2006

The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more
consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the
arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their
names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings
survive unchanged in all that matters through times of
interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and
creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced
them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent
the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find
again when the ruins are cleared away. ~ Katherine Anne Porter (born 15
May 1890)

selected by Kalki

2007

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the
artist — the only thing he's good for — is to take these handfuls
of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be
irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some
kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning.
That's what he's for — to give his view of life. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

proposed by Kalki

2008

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the
wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the
justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to
glory. ~ Irena
Sendler (recent death)

proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even
one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care
and we are responsible for its well-being. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when
caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a
sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own
reward. ~ L. Frank
Baum

1919 - Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion killed or wounded 350 Turks by the Greek army. The responsible were punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fired the first gun of the Turkish War of Independence.

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